The painting "The Kiss" was created in 1859 by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez and depicts a passionate kiss between two characters from the Middle Ages to convey love, passion, and emotion through their gestures and poses. Hayez was born in Venice in 1791 and became a renowned romantic painter after winning a competition from the Venetian academy in 1809, though he spent much of his career in Milan after leaving Rome in 1814. Some of Hayez's other notable paintings include "Odalisque", "Meditation on the History of Italy", and an early "Family Portrait".
2. 1. Name of the picture. Characteristics
The name of this picture is “ The Kiss”.
In this picture the characters express a lot of their feelings with the
gestures that they do with the whole body. Is used the originality and
also the fantasy. The subject of this picture is love, passion and
emotion. They used different colours, vivid colours, duller colours, etc.
The characters are from the Middle Ages. They reflect the mood of the
characters.
3. 2. Who painted it? When and where?
This picture was painted by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez in the year 1859.
Francesco Hayez was born in Venice on 10 of February in 1791. He died in Milan on 12 of
February in 1882. He was an Italian painter considered the representative of romanticism. It
comes from a humble family. As a child he liked drawing and his uncle helped him learn how
to paint different paintings as he really liked it.
In 1809 he won a competition from the Venetian academy.
In 1814 he left Rome after suffering an aggression due to a sentimental relationship and he
left to live in Naples.
4. 3. Other paintings by the same artist
ODALISQUE
( 1867 )
MEDITATION ON THE
HISTORY OF ITALY
( 1850 )
FAMILY PORTRAIT
( 1807 )
